Word: weak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...growing city proletariat and the army. Communist Tito last week warned lawyers who drafted peasants' petitions for release from collectives that they would be considered "enemies of the people." Newspapers appealed to peasants to get their grain in, but also admitted that the government's "weak organization" had been at fault...
Tristano, a Chicago boy, started improvising on the piano at four. His parents saw to it that he got formal lessons, but no one was impressed by Lennie's classical drill work, least of all Lennie. His eyes, weak at birth, became completely sightless after a bout with measles when he was ten. Lennie developed his musical ear in a school for the blind, graduated to Chicago's American Conservatory, where he took his B. Mus. "They thought my string quartet was 'refreshing,' " he says. "If they'd known it was really jazz, they...
Much of the riddle of Islam - what it is, what makes it strong, what makes it weak - is derived from the personality and experience of its founder...
Said the singer: "Call it My Lonely Heart Is Running Wild. Plain Lonely Heart sounds awfully weak...
...when her husband went back to his job as director of agriculture for North Borneo, Mrs. Keith was still too weak to go. A year later, when she rejoined him, friends called her a-"poor sap." But she was determined to help "those who had saved our lives at the risk of their own." She got a quick taste of change at a stopover in Hong Kong. "The place was overflowing with Chinese gold and jewels, and the Asiatic class which these possessions now represented looked confident and opulent in contrast to the threadbare Anglo-Saxons who had only their...